Places Caroline Mazel-Carlton Wants to Go

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.